Lit 285 9/14/2010
-In the beginning there is wholeness (harmony)
-in the middle (muddle) there is a separation (the spite or break)
-In the end there is nothing.
-Then reconstitution (the full circle)
Creation-symbolic narrative of a culture, tradition or people that describes their earliest beginning, how the world they know began and how they first came into it. Commonly considered origin or biblical beliefs.
5 basic types of Myths:
1. Creation ex nihilo in which the creation is through the thought, word, dream or bodily secretions of a diving being. (echnihilo- there is nothing or out of nothing)(Latin word) (logos-the word, mythos-the story)
2. Earth diver creation in which a diver, usually a bird or amphibian sent by a creator, plunges to the seabed through a primordial ocean to bring up sand or mud which develops into terrestrial world.
3. Emergence myths-early ancestors pass through a series of worlds until reaching the resent world.
4. Creation through dismemberment of a primordial being
5. Creation by the splitting or ordering of a primordial unity such as the cracking of a cosmic egg or a bringing into form from chaos. (Example: humpty dumpty or Wall Street.)
Tiamot is a chaos monster. Is killed and split in half. Part is the heavens and part is the earth.
Creation Stories and Ideas:
-Biblical creation story is a late mythical story. These are the happenings before the biblical story.
-women creating the world all by herself
-female/ consort snake -division of female
-god speaks/male (biblical start)
(Gildimish- book that predates the bible)
(Good read- world according to Garp)
*Mnemosyne- goddess meaning memory. (Mother of the muses)
-Ovid’s metamorphoses
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